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May 13, 2025

Commune with the Elephant: An Exercise for Healing Heavy Anxiety | by Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D.

“Like an elephant is standing on me,” Doechii laments in her recent song about anxiety, singing on to soothe herself: “Just relax and let it do its thing.”  But we all know that’s not so…

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March 26, 2025

Notes On Human Form as Incarnated Dreaming | Mala Kline | March 2025

Morphology teaches us how to read the form of the body, whether it be that of your own body or someone else's. It teaches us to look at the the other – without opinion and…

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December 11, 2024

Grace Note | Samantha Smallwood Pounds | December 2024

Anchoring Personal Alignment Through The Art Of Dreaming Can you recall a radiant moment when all seemed to perfectly align, and with difficulty mysteriously absent and synchronicity abounding, you moved effortlessly through that moment lightly…

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September 30, 2024

A Mirror and A Map | blog by Shara Morales | October 2024

Tarot Storytime: A Mirror and A Map I recently met a bright little girl who had never seen herself in the mirror. She was living in a very rudimentary home with her parents in a…

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July 9, 2024

SOI Makes A New Mark at IASD | June 2024

The School of Images at the International Association for the Study of Dreams Conference, June 2024. In the beautiful rolling hills of the south Netherlands, within a stone’s throw of Germany, three teachers of SOI…

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April 1, 2024

Quantum Consciousness – Where Ancient Wisdom and Science Meet | by Catherine Shainberg Ph.D.

We have reached a remarkable point in the history of science and mysticism: they might agree on the nature of consciousness. Facing the split between two opposing worldviews, the Gaon (Genius) of Vilna, an eighteenth-century…

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March 21, 2024

The Great Dream | by Travis Carrier, SOI | March 2024

Every moment from the moment you are born until the moment you die; you are dreaming in one way or another. Everything that enters through your senses, every experience, interaction, and event that takes place…

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March 18, 2024

Eden Revisited through Art & Imagery | Mala Kline | March 2024

This is an update of a blog originally posted  in March 2023 What feeds our imagination?  And how does our imagination feed us? I have explored this deeply over the years, drawing on and connecting…

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March 4, 2024

Emotions Crack Us Open | by Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D. | March 2024

There’s a lot of confusion in general about emotions and feelings.  In our societies today we use the word emotion to cover both emotions and feelings. Are they the same? Different? Distinguishing between them may…

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February 22, 2024

A Simple, Elegant Truth | by Samantha Smallwood-Pounds | August 2024

Have you ever found yourself getting angry, resentful or depressed without being able to control your emotional reactions? Do you find yourself feeling physically tense, constricted, out of your skin or about to pounce –…

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